SPORTS
Football Roundup
Saint Jo
The Saint Jo Panthers wrapped up the regular season by winning their third straight district title with a win at Perrin-Whitt.
The Panthers won 76-30, ending the game in the third quarter due to mercy rule.
Saint Jo ends its regular season with an 8-2 record and 3-0 in district play.
The Pirates did have some success on offense throwing the ball, but the Panthers got enough stops and collected four interceptions to slow them down while on offense Saint Jo scored on every possession.
Logan Brawner showed up big on both sides of the ball, rushing for 332 yards and six touchdowns while intercepting three passes.
Quarterback Matthew Butler-Everson completed eight passes for 153 yards and four touchdowns. Two went to Johnathon Diaz who led the team with five catches for 136 yards. Diaz also intercepted a pass on defense. Trevor Connor and A.J. Wright each caught a touchdown pass as well.
Bowie
The Bowie Jackrabbits lost their final game on Friday night against Boyd.
The Yellowjackets won 48-6 in a game that was not close after the first quarter.
It was senior night for Bowie though a playoff berth was out of the question a win would at least end the season on a happy note.
Boyd did not share that notion though. The Yellowjackets scored on a big run on the first offensive play of the game to go up 8-0.
Bowie’s offense did answer as the team marched down the field, leading to Justin Tucker scoring on a short run to cut the lead to 8-6.
Unfortunately, Boyd answered by taking the kickoff back for a touchdown.
After that, nothing much went right for the Jackrabbits. Despite the defense forcing four turnovers, the offense could not turn those into points after its opening drive.
The Yellowjackets racked up more than 500 yards of offense and 300 yards rushing. Bowie did have 161 yards passing on 13 completions. Senior Colby Miller completed 11 for 110 yards while Devin Melton completed both of his passes for 51 yards. Troy Kesey led the team with 76 yards receiving on three catches.
The team finished with 82 yards of rushing. Clark led the team with 38 yards and scored the team’s only touchdown.
Nocona
The Nocona Indians had a chance to sneak into the playoffs on Friday if they could win at City View.
Unfortunately, it was the Mustangs who earned the final playoff bid, beating the Indians 53-26.
Nocona was coming off its second win of the season and first district win against Valley View.
Despite the rough start to the season and the overall youth of the team, the Indians still had something to play for heading into the final week.
Nocona did not play its best game of the season though. Drives were killed with self inflicted penalties and drops despite moving the ball some.
On defense, the Indians were thrown off when City View’s quarterback went out. The Mustangs resorted to getting the ball into the hands of their best athlete and let him run with the ball.
Nocona did score some in the second half as Ian Hostetter and Johnny Stone scored touchdowns on the ground. Quarterback Brady McCasland also found Charlie Fuller for a score.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The Bowie sports banquets was on Monday night. Olivia Gill and Tucker Jones were named Jackrabbit and Lady Rabbit of the year. Pick up the mid-week paper for all of the sports team awards and pictures.
The 72nd Chisholm Trail Rodeo was a big success on Friday and Saturday nights at Nocona.
The rodeo had big crowds and saw some good competition from both local and far reaching talent.
Winners in the events included Zach Hibler in bareback riding, Lindsey Muggli in barrel racing, Ashley Goforth in breakaway roping, Leanardo Lima in bull riding, Cody McCartney in calf roping, Thomas Moellering in ranch bronc riding, Wacey Hathcock in saddle bronc riding, Renato Finazzi in steer wrestling, Rowdy Jones and Rance Doyal in team roping.
To see full results and more pictures, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
The regional tennis tournaments were late last week in North Richland Hills and a doubles team is moving on to state.
The Saint Jo girl’s doubles team Kyler Dunn and Taylor Patrick won the 1A region III tournament and will return to state for the second straight year.
The pair rolled through teams from Morgan, Dodd City, Priddy before beating a Graford team in the finals. The pair did not lose a set and only lost five of the 53 games it played, never losing more than one in a set.
The team made it to state last year after finishing second at regionals and won a match at the state meet against a team from Vernon Northside. They then lost to the eventual state champion team from Utopia and finished tied for third place.
They will be the only tennis players from Montague County playing at state this week as others did not have as successful regional tournament.
The Saint Jo teammates and fellow girl’s doubles team Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson won their first match against Ector 6-1, 6-4, but fell in their next match against Lometa, 6-1, 6-1.
From Prairie Valley, Case Carpenter was competing in boy’s singles. His first match was a draining two and half hour battle against a player from Strawn Carpenter came through in the three-set battle, winning 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.
Unfortunately, the magic was not there in the second game. Paired against the eventual tournament champion from Gustine, Carpenter lost 6-0, 6-1.
From Gold-Burg, Alyson Rojas and Jimena Garcia competed in girl’s singles. Rojas won her first match against a girl from Avinger 7-6, 6-2. Unfortunately, the next match she lost to a girl from Graford 6-0, 6-0 to end her tournament.
Garcia lost a tough first match against a player from Ector. Both sets could have gone either way with the scores being 6-4, 7-5 to the winner.
The mixed doubles team from Forestburg, Jesse Wadsworth and Alli Cisneros, also did not make it through.
From Nocona, Kaygan Stone was playing in the girl’s singles 2A region II tournament.
Unfortunately, she got paired against the player who would go on to win the tournament in the first round to end her season.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
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